M. (Mette) Wagenvoort

Mette Wagenvoort
Erasmus School of Economics (ESE)
Erasmus University Rotterdam
ERIM PhD Candidate
Field: Logistics & Information Systems
Affiliated since 2020

PhD Track Optimal planning of dispersed operations in urban coastal environments

Consider a coastal mega-city with millions of inhabitants in the midst of a threat such as a climate disaster (hurricane, earthquake or flooding) or conflict (organized paramilitary troops, terrorist threats, conventional threats). The army needs to organize a sea-to-land operation to protect such a territory, where marines are landed on the shore of such contested or degraded environment to provide stability and/or humanitarian aid. 

The aim of this project is to provide determine decisions in such a situation in an optimal way. This will be done by developing operations research techniques for solving this problem in a real-time setting, taking into account changes in the situation represented by the data. The PhD candidate will collaborate here with experts from TNO and The Netherlands Defence Academy.

Keywords
Operations research; optimization; coastal; transport; military; robust
Time frame
2020 -

Publications

  • Academic (1)
    • Wagenvoort, M., Bouman, P. C., van Ee, M., Lamballais Tessensohn, T., & Postek, K. (2025). Exact and heuristic approaches for the ship-to-shore problem. European Journal of Operational Research, 320(1), 115-131. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2024.08.017

  • Academic (1)
    • Wagenvoort, M., Ee, M. V., Bouman, P., & Malone, K. M. (2023). Simple Policies for Capacitated Resupply Problems. In D. Frigioni, & P. Schiewe (Eds.), 23rd Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems, ATMOS 2023 Article 18 Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2023.18

  • Academic (1)
    • Wagenvoort, M., Bouman, P., van Ee, M., Lamballais Tessensohn, T., & Postek, K. (2022). An Exact and Heuristic Approach for the Ship-to-Shore Problem. Econometric Institute, EUR. Econometric Institute Research Papers No. EI 2022-05

2024
July
11
2021
June
18

Address

Visiting address

Office: ET-04
Burgemeester Oudlaan 50
3062 PA Rotterdam

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3000 DR Rotterdam
Netherlands